Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 11:38:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: sward@voltage.net (Susie Ward) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BocaBoard 1008 Message-ID: <199708161538.LAA27716@hda.hda.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970816092811.15285A-100000@voltage.net> from Susie Ward at "Aug 16, 97 09:30:37 am"
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> I was wondering if anyone had sucessfully used the Boca 1008 8 port board > for dialin modem connections? They don't have all the modem control signals. The 1008 uses 8 six pin telco jacks on the back of the ISA board, while the 16 port flavor has a bus interface that plugs into the ISA bus and a black box with the actual UART chips in it with DB25 ports with full modem support. The problem will be no way to detect dropped connections since DTR won't be present. I assume you're trying to reuse something you have lying around. If not look at the price difference - the 16 port version was only about $50.00 more than the 8 port version at CompUSA when I bought one a few weeks back. (Why specify Boca, you ask? They are rock solid at 115.2K baud in a microcontroller test setup I support, while other brands get data corruption resulting in dropped data packets. I suspect some boards have marginal line drivers and I get bad rise times and echos.) Peter -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime development, Machine control, HD Associates, Inc. Safety critical systems, Agency approval
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